Show confiscating CHURCH PROPERTY THE lancaster publishes the article from the new york yolks sei tung a translation of which recently appeared in the NEWS the socialistic article advocated the section of the edmunds bill which proposes to confiscate the property of the A mormon lormon church as a preliminary to the general confiscation of all church property of every denomination the Intelli gefter remarks no doubt these sentiments will find a responsive echo in many minds there is an increasing growth crowth of feeling against ecclesiasticism it w will ill eagerly avail itself ot of any at tempt attempt however unconstitutional to intermeddle with the religious beliefs of any part of the people and especially to seize the 1 t of a religious vh the enro proscription tion of the mormon today will be tte the overturn si the jews by synagogue tomorrow to morrow and the torch and sword for catholic and luthern methodist and episcopal temples of worship and temporal possession that is the question tersely put if mormon church property may be seized under any pretext by the hand of the state so may the pro property erty of any other church establish ake the principle the pretext is easy to make and likely to follow however we do not think that the plots of the I 1 I 1 mormon I 1 I 1 eaters or the hopes of the socialists are at all likely to be realized |